THE INNOVATIVE USE OF MULTIPLE MODALITIES TO CONTROL ADDICTION NATURALLY

Imagine being able to relieve the ensnared
anguish of victims of substance abuse. You would if you could wouldn’t you? Until recently addictions
have been categorised and judged as a personal failing, but now evidence is
re-educating health professionals and the community to view addictions in a new
light, as a disease.

Dr
Jay Holder of the Holder Research Institute in Miami has led the way for close
to 30 years with his research and educational programs at the American College
of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders, training and certifying
professionals to work as Addictionologists. Holder, who is a Certified
Addictionologist and Chiropractor directing two chiropractic clinics and two
addiction recovery facilities, has invented medical devices, formulas, published
research and run educational programs in the US, Israel, the UK and Australia
expounding his innovative approaches.

Chronic addicts are up against the statistical
odds for completing a typical treatment program of 30 days. The US national
retention average rate is 72%, which means out of 100 people in treatment, 28
will quit and those who finish the program stand an 85% chance of staying
drug-free for 5 years. However Holder’s work has achieved a retention rate of up
to 96% and even 100% when Chiropractic care was added to the therapeutic mix. So
if you can get more people to finish the program, you come as close as possible
to curing them, although Holder calls it “securing an ongoing recovery”, from
their addictions.

Holder defines addiction
as “compulsive use of mood altering substances and/or behaviours in spite of
negative consequences” which encompasses drugs, gambling, work, food and sex,
and includes most of the compulsive disorders including ADHD.In a typical case where the client is very sick, depressed, displaying psychotic
behaviour, relapsing and strung out on alcohol and/or cocaine, using psychiatric
mood-altering drugs, and having tried counseling and Alcoholics Anonymous,
Holder proposes a remarkable variety of modalities for the solution.

Dr
Nick Hodgson, a Chiropractor in private practice who coordinates Dr Holder’s
training programs in Australia, is the first practitioner in Australia to offer
the treatment models researched by Dr Holder. The program begins with a thorough
interview and cutting edge non-invasive assessments, then using a unique
diagnostic and chiropractic treatment called Torque Release Technique, which
Holder is the co-developer of; Dr Hodgson determines which of the spine’s
vertebrae are causing spinal cord disturbance, as every addicted person will
have a subluxated spine with at least one or more vertebrae malfunctioning.
Using Dr Holder’s adjustment invention, the Integrator, requiring a minimum of
force and pressure, he makes a few adjustments.

Next,
Dr Hodgson uses a range of amino acids, precursors to or building blocks for
proteins, normally found in foods and taken daily as oral supplements. These can
include 5-Hydoxytryptophan, L-Phenylaline, D-Phenylalinine, l-Glutamine and
L-Tyrosine. The amino acids are necessary precursors for the brain reward
cascade chemicals, or neurotransmitters, known through the work of Holder’s
colleague, Kenneth Blum, PhD of the University of Texas Health Science Centre,
that are chronically deficient in the addicted person. Blum determined that
specific combinations of amino acids could help to balance and restore the
linear sequence of brain chemicals in the brain reward cascade function.

Using
new information about the energetics of the ear, Auriculotherapy, Dr Holder has
further refined the five ear points described in Classical Chinese medicine
identifying three completely new points for all addiction treatments. These are
related to the four cranial nerves that have nerve endings throughout the ear.
However, again Holder uses an innovative technique that does not require needles
called a StimPlus Pro 103F, which is a small handheld probe that delivers
specific frequencies in micro-current to specific ear points for 30-60 seconds
per point. This is a highly efficient and specific therapy, and helps release
the pleasure-producing brain chemicals, endorphins, more quickly and more
thoroughly than needle treatment when clients need an energy boost to lift
depression, cut drug cravings, increase relaxation and improve compliance.

According to Blum
and Holder there are two key factors causing addictions the first of which is a
genetic flaw called “the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor” found in 69% of
severe alcoholics. The second cause, according to Holder’s research, is that an
estimated 90% of babies born through a difficult or assisted delivery arrive
with a spinal subluxation, and if the infant has the genetic defect as well,
then the chances of becoming an addicted adult are very high. The connection between a subluxated
spine and addictions is linked to the sequence of chemical changes in your
brain, which if released in the right sequence make you feel good, but if the
sequence is interfered with, may prompt the search for mood-altering substances
to make you feel good.

“We
now have a bold new approach to treating addictions that has a very high success
rate and is highly cost-effective. It works so well because it removes the
interference, the subluxation, to the brain reward cascade and allows you to
feel good about yourself,” Dr Hodgson says. Counseling, twelve step groups and a
spiritual focus are also fundamental elements of any treatment program.
Chiropractic care, used in conjunction with the other modalities is offering the
community and health professionals a drug-free addiction recovery program and a
new understanding of addictions as a disease. It is a program that can
successfully treat addicted pregnant mothers; take account of a person’s body
and soul; give hope to those in the grip of addictions, be they in the workplace
or in jail; claim an exceptional retention rate, and give help to communities
that must pay for and deal with the consequences of addictions.

Torque Release Technique
(TRT) is the first Chiropractic
Technique to be created through a rigorous scientific research and
development process. TRT aims to improve health and wellbeing by improving
Nervous System function via specific Adjustment of Primary Subluxations. TRT
is an extremely gentle chiropractic method and has been published in major
Medical and Chiropractic Journals and featured on the Discovery Health
Channel.